The Causa Sui Strikes Back: The Impossibility of Strictly Circular Causality and the Scientific Study of Humans
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causalidad circular, causa sui, filosofía de la ciencia, bucles causales, epistemologíaResumen
En este artículo defiendo la imposibilidad de las relaciones causales estrictamente circulares, recurrentes en la literatura académica de disciplinas cuyo objeto de estudio son los seres humanos. Combino argumentos apriorísticos y empíricos, basados en un ejemplo central, para exponer los fallos lógicos que generan, así como las incompatibilidades que plantean con numerosos principios científicos. Una vez refutado este modelo explicativo, propongo un modelo corregido que admite el fenómeno de la retroalimentación, pero niega el retorno de cualquier causa sobre sí misma. Por último, examino las contribuciones más relevantes, directa o indirectamente relacionadas con el problema abordado en este ensayo.
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